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creating memories

by Laura & the comrats

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1.
rise 04:53
out on the big bad sea i am a sailor asleep on the ground and in a million years someone will wake me to rise in a storm and the thunders and the lightning that surround me will frighten you so much that you will fall and you fall and tumble blindly without direction and all that u can do is ride the sea and you will rise i am the big bad wolf and you are the ones that feed me until i come alive and when i appear i wear a sheepskin so that you don´t discover that its u that i want and i carry u inside me once i slaughtered to throw u back again when it is time and u open up my guts to see me bleeding but the eyes u look into are your own and they will rise
2.
tonight my heart feels at home as if this city were my own this city that i look on Vienna at my feet ottakring lies still reflecting how i feel each light like a candle this roof like a throne Vienna at my feet Tonight the ferris wheel glows out on the horizon this city is the night sky Vienna at my feet to me the only comfort she holds me like a child and puts me at ease Vienna at my feet tonight i watch the hours move on this church clock in the distance and time holds its breath and lays this city down puts it gently to sleep Vienna at my feet i watch this feeling grow like a child inside of me and it pins me down let this city conquer me and let me be the conquered Vienna at my feet tonight i feel like an old soul like i´ve always been there as if i were the rocks on which this city was built and that have seen it burned and rebuilt stone by stone i am vienna at my feet
3.
All that i had is now gone all that i had is now gone its gone for no reason it may be the season but all that i had is now gone all that i knew are now gone all that i knew are now gone they ve gone for no reason it may be the season but all that i knew are now gone can´t u see it´s now that matters to me hope u will see we´re free for today once everything´s gone so bye bye baby goodbye you´ve gone for no reason it may be the season bye bye baby goodbye so we´re chasing the clouds away now we´re chasing the clouds away now they ll go for no reason with every new season we´re chasing the clouds away now
4.
and so i fly across this sea tonight and watch the world in the fading evening light to move away from u remove my heart from any damage that u do cos u give me waterfalls at night water on my ceiling let me stay out of ur sight let me stay out of ur system let me flood my gates with light let me move in my direction let me stay out of ur reach and fight the insurrection u give me waterfalls at night all the promises u made u wont keep a single one even if u really tried to share my life with u is something i realize i might never do so now the sea turned upside down again ur gonna have to feel the urge to go and get me while u can it breaks my heart to see what all this is doing to u and me
5.
someday 02:57
someday across the sea i´ll be a long way away from thee someday across the sky i´m gonna keep u close to my heart baby dry ur eyes i don´t want to see u cry and when i die i think of u where u are i loved u true someday i close my eyes to fly a thousand miles and miles to u someday across my heart ther´ll be ur name, a mighty scar someday when im gone u´ll still echo on and on someday i wish i could but i cant i know i should
6.
the unknown 03:48
the unknown i got nowhere to go, got nowhere to hide lost everything at once tonight the wind is calm as the fire burns it´s the unknown for which i yearn i sold all the sins ive done shed a tear for what ive become no use crying for what is gone its the unknown for which ive come the fire sheds its light on me but its not enough for me to see thieves might take all that ive got theres not much left for which i´d stay and though i don´t know where im going what leads me there is the unknown
7.
the wind is my companion the wind is my companion it falls asleep at night it carries my love to some distant land where my own true love will stand the yellow moon shines full and bright but dark and empty am I it shines for the broken hearted ones who have no thoughts to deny the twinkling of a star shall guide my heart to u time will tell when the road shall end and i´m walking my miles in between let my kiss catch ur sighs lead my heart out of this darkness let my breath remember the story how our love came to fall the bird that knows no sorrow shall fly away like u i´m waving goodbye to the one who will never return and who´ll never be mine
8.
the cat´s fading colors at night things turn into a memory when u stood in some dark street next to some lonely streetlamp looking up to girls on shiny window sills the very moment that time stands still and you wish you were in there and then again you don´t cos ur out there like a ghost at ease with the world most of all before u turn into the city at night the eternal romantic so when you fall asleep my demons call it a day knowing u are out there some of u tired leaving work for home some still dancing in the night tp look after me while i am dreaming with empty stations and life´s window sills and the cats fading colors
9.
out of touch 03:09
i ask myself why do i still see you in the face of somebody new i wish there was something i could do to make them more like you when the masks all fall and the truth is all that you see that it´s me who is missing you all that much we´re out of touch if it is love that brings us down brings us down on the ground i went down in your arms knowingly that this would be major harm to me when the pain´s so strong its beyond all grief it will force me down on my knees cos im missing you all that much we´re out of touch
10.
i hate this song i dreamed i was a little girl i played by the fire i lived by the edge of the sea and fed my monsters i know this song i know this song i dreamed i was an open book with everyone to look in and each line that i wish was hidden is now open to the public eye i hate this song i hate this song i dreamed i cut my right hand and cut it off my arm and put it back into its place wondering at the feeling i love this song i love this song and if i ever find the words to express this feeling its like im stuck inside of me i dreamed i kissed an old woman´s face and told her that she was dead and took her in my broken arms in one confusing feeling i dreamed i carried cats inside filling up my inside it moved me deeply to feel them move to touch me from within singing i love this song i love this song
11.
vast gigantic sea i wish that i could make a part of you stay with me so that even when you´re far away i have you near carry you inside of me inside this vast gigantic sea that fills my heart when you´re away i wish that i could make you stay how can i hold you when you´re already gone this seed of love you planted deep inside inside of me i feel it grow i feel it spring to life it has to breathe i open up and set it free into this vast gigantic sea that swallows me when you´re away i wish that i could make it stay how can i hold it when it´s already gone the girl that i once was is sad and scared i hold her close a sense of loss a shadow on her mind she´s all i got i lose myself inside of me inside this vast gigantic sea that swallows me when she´s away i wish that i could make her stay how can i hold her when she´s already gone these days a child is wandering through my dreams it has no name invokes a yearning that i never knew i sleep in flames it burns and burns inside of me until that vast gigantic sea will swallow it and make me whole i wish that i could make it stay how can i hold it when it´s already gone

about

Basically most of Laura´s songs are about love and loss,the hopelessness of holding on to the moment that will soon be gone, and at the same time the longing for doing exactly that. Most of her lyrics take place during nighttime when time stands still and "holds its breath" (from: "Vienna at my feet"). The songs look inwards and turn outwards what is usually invisible, express feelings that everybody knows but dares not show. The dark side of human nature, the violence of longing, and unlived feelings find their place in these songs.

Water is a central metaphor in Laura´s songs : waterfalls at night,this vast gigantic sea. You can find the other elements too as in "the wind is my companion". "The walls lit up in flames" is a line from "waterfalls". She thus continues a tradition from trad folk songs – taking images from nature to express feelings.

The lines of Laura´s songs are often charged with sadness and lonelyness, but there is always hope and the melodies attached to the lyrics are sweet and touching. The English language is handled with astonishing ease. In almost every song she implants a chorus repeating the central theme and thus the words and the tunes take root in our minds.

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released April 24, 2010

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